EDITORIAL: EFF on road to nowhere
Party focuses on personality battles and internal ANC fights instead of delivering what voters want
28 November 2024 - 05:00
Julius Malema’s EFF is at a crossroads. The party’s shallow political expediency returned to haunt it in the most brutal way possible with the first decline in its support nationally in the May 29 election and the departure of senior leaders to former president Jacob Zuma’s MK party.
The EFF was formed and nurtured during former president Zuma’s presidency. In many ways Zuma created the need for the party. He hollowed out internal democracy in the ANC, dealing ruthlessly with dissent, which led to Malema and much of the EFF’s top leadership’s departure from the governing party. ..
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